Car-replacer.



W. S. COP-PERS.

OAR REPLAGER.

` APPLICATION FILED JULY 23, 1909.

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witness@ s tft-TENT WCE? WILLIAM SHERMAN COPPERS, OF BELLEVILLE, .KANSAS CAR-REPLACER.

To all whom itmay concern:

Beit known that'.l`, llf'n. m.ni SHERMAN Corrnns,.a citizen of the' United Sta-tes, re-

. sidinga't Belleville, in the county of Repub# lic and ,Stateot Kansas, have invented a lnew and useful Car-1leplaccr, et which the following is a specification. v

The invention relates to improvements in car replacers.-

The object of theprescn't invention is to improve the construction of carreplacers,

fand to provide a simple, inexpensive and etticient car replacer of great strength and du-l rabihty, adapted to operate either at the inner side or outer 'sideof arail, and' capable of adjustment to arrange it in different positions to correspond to the position of the derailed wheel to be replaced. t

A further object of the invention is to provide a car replacer of this character, capable of positively carrying the flange of the outside wheel across the top of the rail. and of causing the wheel t"o drop into proper place, and spaced from the rail a sufficient distance to permit the iange ofthe insidel wheel to drop between it and the rail.4 With these and other objects in view, 'the invention consists in theA construction and novel combination of parts 'hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended; it being .understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction-within the scope ot the claims, may he resorted to without departing' from the s irit or saciificing any of the advantages o the invention.

Tn the drawing:mitigare l is a plan view ot a pair of car replacers,-constructed in accordance with this invention, and shown applied t`o a portion ot a track atthe inside and outside olf the rails thereof'. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of the'car replacers. Fig. 3 is a reverse plan/view of the same.

Fig. 4 is an end view. Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view, taken substantially on the line 5 5 of'Fig. 1.

L ike numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the iggfuresv of the drawing.

1 designates a car replacer, adapted, as illustrated 1n Fig. 1 of the drawing, to be arranged at either the inner side or outer side of a rail. It consists of an oblong body tapered transversely Afrom the ends to the p I Specification offLetters Patent. Application filed July v23,

rat-enten Feb. 15, ioio. 1909. Serial No. 509,168.

center, and preferably constructed hollow or of flanged formation, being composed of inner and Aouter sides or walls 2 top 4. The loweredgeslt -the car repl cer are horizontal and are adapted -to be) arranged upon the cross ties 5, as shown, and i the device is provided at intermediate points with depending inner and outer ears 6 and 7, l formed integral with the inner and vouter sides of the car replacer, and. arranged in pairs an d receiving the Shanks 7 ofthe clampwhich are disposed transversely the car replacer, are located midway bn we n the center and ends thereof and are dii transversely of the same. They aie rovided at their inner' ends with heads or Jaws for engaging the bottom flanges ofthe rails, and they extend beneath the same, and are provided atthe outer portion of tljeir-shanks with screw threads 9 for the f'eception of nuts 10, hearing against the outer ears 7 and adapted to hold the car replacer firmly in position, whereby the same is prevented from accidentally slipping out of place.

The c ar replacer -is provided at the exterior of its inner side or wall with hori- .zontal 'rail-engaging lugs 11, located Aat opposite sides of the center of the device and fitting against the web of the rail beneath the head thereof, as clearly shown in Figs. 4 and?) of the drawing. Either or both lugs may be fitted against the web of the rail, and when desired the car replacer may, as illustrated in dotted lines in the lower portion of Fig. 1 ot the drawine, ,be arranged at. au angle to the adjacent rail, when vnecessary in order to position'it properly with relation to the wheel to be replaced. The lugs '11 also space the inner side of the replacer-a sufficientdistance from the rail to permit the flange of the inner rail.

The upper wheel receiving face 12 of lthe 'car replacer 'is inclined upwardly from the ends to the center, and it extends above permit the llange of a wheel to ele-ar the head of therail, when the tread of the wheel rests upon the upper face of the ear replacer at the intern'mdiate portion thereof. The car replacerand the upper face thereof taper transversely 'from the outer ends to the center, and the replacer is provided at its outer side with an upwardly extending and .3, a id a 1 wheel to drop between the replacer and the ing members 8. The clamping members 8 posed the top otthc rail a sntlicient distance torep acer.

longitudinally 'disposed marginal flange 13, composed of'two angularly related portions forming an apex 14, which is arranged at the inner face of the car replacer, whereby' the marginal flange, which is. arranged at 'an angleto the rail, is adapted to'foroe the wheel toward the same, and is capable of dropping the Wheel in proper place upon the rail. VThe outside Wheel moving upwardly and inwardly on the. carreplacer will first dro its flange at the'inner fape of the car The tread lof the outside wheel will then rest upon the. upper face of the same by the marcinalflange, which will cause. the flange ol? the Wheel to drop into the space between the car replacer `and the head of the rail.

Having thusl fully described my invention, what I' claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A car replacer provided at opposite lsides of its center with spaced horizontally projecting lugs arranged to extend beneath the head of a rail and engage the same to space the car replacer therefrom andalso to form ful s for enabling the car replacer to be ar need either in substantial parallelism with the rail or at dilferent -anglesto thesame, and means for adjustably securing the car replacer to a rail for maintaining oneor both,.;of the lugsin engageinent with the-same.

2. A .car -replacer .consisting of a body tapered transversely from its ends to its center and having an upper Wheel-receiving face inclined upwardly from the ends to the center and extending a suilicient distance above the head of a rail to support the Ilange of a' wheel out of contact 'with the rail, a marginal flange extending longitudinally of the car replacer at the outer side thereof and composed of angularly related portions forming an apex extending` to the inner face of the car'replacer, spaced rail-engaging lugs extending from the inner face of the 'car replacer at .opposite sides of the center thereof, .and spaced means 'also located at opposite sides'l of the center of the car replacer. for adjustably connecting the same to a rail.

In testimony, that l'elaim the foregoing as my own, l Ahave hereto afixedmy signature in the presence, of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM SHERMAN correas.

Witnesses:

J. M. JOHNSON', E. J.\NEALEIGH. 

